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This page focuses on the sorts of pouches and purses that Goubitz calls “framed purses”:
A category of distinctive purses with metal frames and suspension features by which they are suspended from the girdle … From the frame, made of iron, tin-plated iron, brass, silver or gold, hangs the leather bag part of the purse. In later centuries, other materials too were used, mainly textile. The frame surrounds the purse’s aperture. Therefore it must be wide enough to admit a hand.
I’ve separated them into a few different sub-categories: ring-framed purses (including the trapezoidal alms-purses, which seem to feature ring-shaped pieces of metal as part of their structural hardware);
harp-framed purses;
bar purses;
and spring-catch framed purses.
Ring-framed purses
- Dietmar von Ast (fol. 64r) and Kunz von Rosenheim (fol. 394) in the Manesse Codex (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 394r), 1300-1330
Goubitz does not discuss this category of bags, but they seem to fit best into this category. These bags are most frequently made of a textile (often embroidered), and have an internal ring frame at the top.
- Purse (Kerk O.L.Vrouw Geboorte Tx35) embroidered with the arms of Jan II van Brabant and his wife Margaretha, 1291-1310
- Purse (Kerk O.L.Vrouw Geboorte) woven of silk and wool with the arms of Brabant-Limbourg and Bourbon, 1291-1310
- Purse with geometric motifs and stylized swans and peacocks (CL11992), c. 1300; back, detail
- Alms-purse made in Germany c. 1301-1315 (see additional details here and here)
- A row of (embroidered? brocade?) purses above the Fall of the Great Whore from a bible (BNF Fr. 13096, fol. 62), 1313
- A man giving alms, The Luttrell Psalter (British Library MS. ADD. 42130, fol. 186v), c. 1325-1335
- Aumônière said to belong to the Countess of Bar (CL11787), mid-14th century; without top flap, back, armature
- Aumônière of a countess of Bar (CL11788), 14th century; without top flap, embroidered griffin, embroidered angel, appliqued bunny, back, armature
- Fragments of the aumônière of Marie de Picquigny (CL13533a-d): bottom front, narrow pieces
- Embroidered purse (Kerk O.L.Vrouw Geboorte) with a scene from a medieval romance (?), made in Paris c. 1391-1410
- Brocade bag from the nachlaß of Hermann von Goch, c. 1398 (more details & images of it open here, here, and here)
- Torture of Agrippine the Young (fol. 136) and Constance de Hauteville refuses marriage (fol. 154v), De mulierbus claris (BNF Fr. 598), beginning of the 15th century
- The rabbit-shoot, The Book of the Hunt of Gaston Phoebus (BNF Fr. 616, fol. 818), beginning of the 15th century
- Lupin (fol. 45v) and wheat-threshing (fol. 47), Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Latin 9333), 15th century
- Fols. 304 and 387, The Decameron, (BNF Arsenal 5070), 1432
- Many examples in The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, c. 1440
- Detail from the Adoration of the Magi from the Cologne Cathedral altarpiece by Stefan Lochner, c. 1440
- Detail from the presentation scene in the Chroniques du Hainaut (fol. 1), 1447-1448
- The fish-miracle of St. Ulrich and the messenger gives the fish to the duke in Scenes from the Life of St. Ulrich, 1450-1455
- Pericles and Alcibiades in De casibus (BNF Fr. 232, fol. 98), second quarter of the 15th century
- Portrait of Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, ca. 1460-1465
- Torture of a profaner, Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 440v), 1463
- Detail from a tapestry of the Coronation of Trquinius Priscus, c. 1475-1485
- Adoration of the Magi, 1475-1500
- How God is displeased by ingratitude, Le Livre de bonnes moeurs de Jacques Legrand (Musée Condé MS 297, fol. 20v), France, c. 1490
- A jealous husband beats his wife, Roman de la Rose (British Library Harley 4425, fol. 85), c. 1490-1500
- Detail from St. Acacius, c. 1495-1505
- The Visitation by Master M S, 1506
- Mary embraces Elizabeth by Albrecht Dürer, c. 1510
- St. Christopher by Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1514
- 16th century German leather pouch
- Purse mount, mid-16th century; the caption describes a purse-frame made by Diego de Çaias for Henri II, but it is unclear whether it is describing this particular purse frame
- Mount for purse or escarcelle for Alfonso II d'Este, workshop of Diego de Çaias, c. 1559
- Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham, ca. 1565
- The purse-maker, Das Ständebuch, 1568
- Various 16th and early 17th century escarcelle mounts at the Musée National de la Rennaissance:
ECL1297,
ECL1301,
ECL2659,
ECL20970,
ECL22167
- An escarcelle (ECL22166) probably from Italy in the late 16th century; the velvet purse it's attached to is probably modern; back
- Mount for an escarcelle, end of the 16th century
- Pierson La Hues by Gillis Congnet, 1581
- Three purses from the 16th and 17th centuries at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich
Harp-framed purses
- Right panel of The Bladelin Triptych by Rogier van der Weyden, 1445-1450
- A hinged purse-frame, made in Italy c. 1450
- Portrait of a Young Man by Petrus Christus, c. 1450-1460
- Portrait of a Young Man by Petrus Christus, 1460
- Roboam and his subjects in the Speculum historiale (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 88), 1463
- Funeral brass of William Browne at Stamford in Lincolnshire, 1465
- Purse frame made in the late 15th century and found in London
- Center panel of a triptych by Hans Memling, 1470
- Thomas Smyth on an embroidered panel, c. 1470-1500
- Envy (The Seven Deadly Sins) by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1480
- A latten purse frame with niello, late 15th century
- January, Grimani Breviary, c. 1490-1510
- Ptolemy I orders the exile of Jews in Egypt, Antiquitates judaicae (Bibl. Mazarine 1581, fol. 228), c. 1503
- February (fol. 5) and March (fol. 6), The Grand Hours of Anne of Brittany (BNF Latin 9474), c. 1503-1508
- Detail from The Entombment, 1518
- The Supper at Emmaus by Jacopo Bassano, 1538
Bar purses
Spring-catch framed purses
- A belt-purse (back), 15th century
- Purse (falconer's bag?), southern Germany, c. 1430
- Detail from the central panel of the Altarpiece of the Patron Saints of Cologne, by Stefan Lochner, 1440s
- Two purses with iron clasps (one in cut velvet, the other in leather) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Boucher
 calls these "escarcelles")
- St. Denis healing a blind man, Chapel Saint-Érige
- Detail from a fresco of St. Christopher at St. Ulrich in Gröden, c. 1450-1475
- Detail from The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1475-1485
- Detail from The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1480-1490
- A belt-purse (back), 15th-16th century
- Leather purse with iron frame, Germany, 16th century
- Leather belt-purse with iron buckle (open), 16th century
- The purse-maker, Das Ständebuch, 1568
- Man's purse, Spain, ca. 1580; leather with silver frame (LACMA M.79.18)
- Purse, silk velvet with iron fittings; Germany, 16th century
- Three purses from the 16th and 17th centuries at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich
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